Then this happened: Cookie Monster Was Stuffed With Cocaine. A Florida Keys man is facing a pair of felony narcotics charges after cops discovered two packages of cocaine hidden in a Cookie Monster doll that was inside the accused trafficker's backpack. According to investigators, Camus Lorenzo McNair, 39, was pulled over early this morning on…

The latest Step into an OCP-approved Ed-209-compatible Future: Automatic Handgun Detection Alarm in Videos Using Deep Learning (PDF). Usage Guide: In case of False Positives, say „It's just a Glitch“. In case of False Negatives: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. (via AlexJC) Current surveillance and control systems still require human supervision and intervention. This work presents a novel automatic…

Guardian: Sales of George Orwell's 1984 surge after Kellyanne Conway's 'alternative facts' Sales of George Orwell’s dystopian drama 1984 have soared after Kellyanne Conway, adviser to the reality-TV-star-turned-president, Donald Trump, used the phrase “alternative facts” in an interview. As of [Wednesday], the book was the […] best-selling book on Amazon. Comparisons were made with the…

Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence ✌️ [update] Obama is a Player: „May 17th - when @xychelsea goes free - is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.“ President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed…